COVID-19 statistical report
7 October 2020
Management Information Statistics
- Published
- 07 October 2020
- Type
- Statistical report
- Author
- Public Health Scotland
About this release
This weekly release by Public Health Scotland presents data on COVID-19 across NHSScotland.
Main points
- Between 28 May to 4 October 2020, 14,997 individuals were recorded in the contact tracing software, from which 65,755 contacts have been traced (of which 48,243 were unique).
- As at 4 October 2020, there have been 32,906 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 4,352 in the latest week.
- In the week ending 4 October there were 40 individuals aged 16-17 and 217 aged 18-19 who tested positive for COVID-19.
- In the week ending 2 October 2020, there were 173 admissions to hospital with a laboratory confirmed test of COVID-19.
- In the week ending 4 October 2020 there were 15 patients who have ever been confirmed COVID-19 that were treated in an Intensive Care Unit.
- In the week ending 4 October 2020 there were 26,883 people who arrived in Scotland from outside the UK, of which 9,203 were required to quarantine and 822 were contacted by the National Contact Tracing Centre.
- Additional charts and data are available to view in the interactive dashboard accompanying this report.
Wider impact detailed analysis
The response to the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to have a wider impact on health and care as a result of the lockdown, economic pressures and changes to health services.
A range of analyses on the impact of COVID-19 across aspects of NHS Scotland is available on the interactive information tool (external website).
Background
Since the start of the outbreak, Public Health Scotland (PHS) has been working closely with the Scottish Government and health and care colleagues to support the surveillance and monitoring of COVID-19 amongst the population. There is a large amount of data being regularly published regarding COVID-19. For example, Coronavirus in Scotland – Scottish Government (external website) and Deaths involving coronavirus in Scotland – National Records of Scotland (external website). This report complements the range of existing data currently available.
Find out more
Previous Publications
Versions of the Weekly national respiratory report publication released before 30 November 2022 may be found on the Public Health Scotland website
Versions of the COVID-19 weekly statistical report publication released before 30 November 2022 may be found on the Public Health Scotland website
Open data
Open data from this publication is available from the following weblinks:
- COVID-19 Open Data platform
- Respiratory Open Data platform
- Flu and COVID Vaccination Uptake Open Data platform
Further data
- Ethnicity Data: The COVID-19 & Respiratory Surveillance in Scotland interactive dashboard was updated on 25 May 2023 to include more recent information relating to ethnicity of COVID-19 hospital admissions.
- 28 September 2022 COVID-19 statistical report publication contains information on COVID-19 infection and vaccination in pregnancy in Scotland.
- 2 March 2022 COVID-19 statistical report publication contains information on Highest Risk (shielding patients list)
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Older versions of this publication
Versions of this publication released before 16 March 2020 may be found on the Data and Intelligence, Health Protection Scotland or Improving Health websites.